Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-12
of the morrow, the fatal 4th OF May,
possesses peculiar interest. Spies wrote:
sfREvENGEi REyENGEi
Z" Worknaen, to Arms

'REVENGE! REVENUE!
"Workmen, to Arms!
"Men of labor, this afternoon the blood
hounds Of your oppressors murdered SIX
Of your brothers at McCormick's. Why
did they murder them? Because they
dared to be dissatisfied with the lot which
your oppressor5 have assigned to them.
They demanded bread and they gave them
lesd for an answer, mindful of the fact
that thus people sre most effectively
siieDced. You have for many, many years
endured every humiliation without pro-
test; have crudged from early in the
morning till late ct night; have suffered
all sorts of priVations, have even sacrl-
feed your children. You have done
everything TO fl the Golfers OF your mss
ters-everything for them; and now,
when you approach them and I'M
plore them 80 make your burden
little lighter, as reward for Our sac
rifces they send their bloodho ands-the
police-at you in order to cure you, with
bullets, of your dissatisfaction Slaves,
We ask and c0Djure you, by al Inst Is
sacred spd dear to you, avense the afro
cious murder which has been committed
which will likely be COM
mitted on you tomorrow. LA3olseg
men, Hercules, you have arrived a he
crossway. Which way will you g. eide?
For slaverv and hunger OR for II edom
and bread? II you decide Tor tn later,
then do not delay moment; then, peo-
pie, to srms! This must be your motto.
Think OF the heroes whose blood has fer
tilted the road to progress, liberty end
humanity, and to strive and become
worthy of them. YOUR BRoTHHRs."
Neebe and other notables Of tha | A. a.
took horses, and in person scattss ed the
circular broadcast, not failing u lesve
copies with the rank and file Of the In
ternationaI EARNED sections" g2shering
in Greif's hall, "a West Lake strees. That
the circular gave the impulse to ne &C.
ton of the armed sections at this Monday
night meeting, and inspired the adop-
ton of
TEE PLAN OF BOMB THROWING
agreed upon, is apparent from the fac
that its contents were first fully discussed
Then the complete detailed plan of tn
particular method of ineugurating the
wholesale murder for which they originally
organized was formally considered and
left for the Arbeiter Zeitupg to designate
(peace). This latter feature was the
work Of Adolph Fischer, who had come
to the meeting straight from the Arbeiter
Zeitung where he had been assisting
Spies and SchWab. That Fischer was
carrying out the plans of his superiors
appears more clearly from the circum-
stances thst it was he who
MANEUVERBD THE "ARMED SECTIONS"
out of their idea of holding the Hay
market meeting in the morning instead OF
at night, IS Spies and the other leaders
had decided.
A darker picture is not TO be found in
history than this spectacle Of four-scOre
murderous conspirators in the wretched.
saloon basement, remorselessly plotting
the massacre that occurred not hundred
Yards distant, before another midnight
passed. Rudolph SchnauSelt, the throw
er OF the Haymarket bomb, YVES among
the eighty or more assassins who com
posed this horrible meeting. Though ad
j2urnment did not come till long after II,
1t was not O'Clock next morning,
Tuesday, when Louis Ling, q member OF
this identical EARNED section," opened
the chest of dynamite that had lain IN
touched in his lodgings since four days
before. Under his expert directions six
o. the men who attended the murder
meeting Of the previous night quickly set
to work then and there filling globular
shells with dynamite.
Early as was the hour, Fischer YVES
also at work getting out handbills calling
the Hsymarket massmeetiDg. The hsnd-
L. -
arm yourselves and appear in full force ]"
Whist Spies, Schwao and the other lead
ers were doing that Gay may be partly in
ferred from the
BURNING APPEALS FOR RESISTANCE
and calls "To Arms!" th2t appeared in
their newspaper organs that evening.
"Ruhe," penned by Spies own hand,
stared out Of the Arbeiter Zeitung. After
the papers were OF and their editors had
swallowed hasty supper, 1T is known that
Spies, Parsons, Schwab, Fielder, Fischer
and other ruling spirits, mostly members
of the self-ssme EARNED sections" that
held the Greif'S Hall concleve, went into
close session at the international head
quarters in the Arbeiter Zeitung building,
where reports by messenger and tele-
phone were received SIS the moments sped.
LuHSS Grew VI UOulO mabtES WCiC
still assiduously al work. For some
reason he himself was unable to remain
with them all the time, and the evening
found him cuFsipg their slow progress.
Il was sometime after 1880 p. m.-the
hour mentioned for the Haymarket meet
Ing to begin-when Lingg put into little
trunk what bombs were ready-some fifty
or sixty-and started with lis burden for
the appointed rendezvous, sn anarchists
saloon near by, known as Neff's hall, IS
Clybourn avenue. Hel was met on the
way by e messenger who had come to
hurry him along. The trunk was left
open in passsge-Way of the saloon, and
without more ado men began dropping in
quietly, alone or in couples,
POCKETING BOMB OR TWO
each, and vanishing into the darkness.
This celebrity may have somewhat molli-
fed Lingg, but his delay was not the only
stumbling block of the reds.
Twenty-Five thousand people, the an
archist leaders estimated, would be gsth-
cred together in the Haymarket. This